1 Kings 20:16:71 Kgs.20.16.W7TAB
ה֧וּא
hu
“he”
- Transliteration
- HU
- Extended
- HOO
- IPA
- /ˈhuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- he
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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The word
Word in context
- word
HU
- phraseyour reading level
HU ve-ham-me-la-KHIM
- clause
u-ven-ha-DAD sho-TE shi-KOR ba-su-KOT HU ve-ham-me-la-KHIM she-lo-SHIM-u-she-NA-YIM ME-lekh o-ZER o-TO
- sentence
va-ye-tsE-U ba-tso-ha-ra-YIM u-ven-ha-DAD sho-TE shi-KOR ba-su-KOT HU ve-ham-me-la-KHIM she-lo-SHIM-u-she-NA-YIM ME-lekh o-ZER o-TO
Exegesis
His location is marked by the locative basukkot {בַּסֻּכּ֗וֹת | ba·suk·kōṯ} ‘in the tents’, with the pronoun hu {ה֧וּא | hū} ‘he’ resuming the subject.
In context — 1 Kings 20:16
And they went out at noon , and Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the tents —he and the thirty-two kings assisting him.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 20:16:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 1 Kings 20:16, so the Hebrew word ה֧וּא (hu) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Kgs.20.16.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.20.16.W7.S1) and character.